Calories and Corsets: A history of dieting over two thousand years free ebook download.

Home : Book details

Calories and Corsets: A history of dieting over two thousand years free ebook download

Category:
Health and Care

Views: 186
Likes: 12

Catalogue

Author(s):	no autor

Date:	2021	Format:	epub	Language:	English	ISBN/ASIN:	1846684250
Pages:	320	OCR:		Quality:		ISBN13:
Uploader:	eternal	Upload Date:	12/15/2022 6:13:01 PM

To download click on link in the Links Table below

Description: Click to see full description

This is an enlightening and entertaining social history of how we have tried (and failed) to battle the bulge over two millennia. Today we are urged from all sides to slim down and shape up, to shed a few pounds or lose life-threatening stones. The media's relentless obsession with size may be perceived as a twenty-first-century phenomenon, but as award-winning historian Louise Foxcroft shows, we have been struggling with what to eat, when and how much, ever since the Greeks and the Romans first pinched an inch. Meticulously researched, surprising and sometimes shocking, "Calories and Corsets" tells the epic story of our complicated relationship with food, the fashions and fads of body shape, and how cultural beliefs and social norms have changed over time. Combining research from medical journals, letters, articles and the dieting bestsellers we continue to devour (including one by an octogenarian Italian in the sixteenth century), Foxcroft reveals the extreme and often absurd lengths people will go to in order to achieve the perfect body, from eating carbolic soap to deliberately swallowing tapeworm. This unique and witty history exposes the myths and anxieties that drive today's multi-billion pound dieting industry - and offers a welcome perspective on how we can be healthy and happy in our bodies.
Read more

Links Table

	Title	Link	Password	Size (MB)	Thank to	Inform Admin
3161615	Book	https://nitroflare.com/view/CFE9AD768428...		0.00	eternal

Tags: Calories Corsets dieting history thousand years

Title	Link	Password	Size	Reason

Those who downloaded this book also downloaded the following books:
Comments

New comment: